Wow I feel really yung.
The first games I ever played that were audio ish
were of old mojo inst floppies back in 1994.
The first real games were interactive fiction,
and the first real audiogames I ever played were
the old pcs titles I think 1997 or so.
up to 2000, and the gma games lonewolf and shades of doom prototype.
I was round for sod alpha tests to.
At 03:42 a.m. 20/10/2014, you wrote:
Iâm like Phil and others, my first real audio
games were Apple IIE and, later, GS games on a
school computer. There was a time in the early
90s when schools had tons of Apple hardware, and
so I got to play Great Escape, Lemonade Stand
etc. My first Windows audio game was ShellShock
from EspSoftworks. I donât remember how I
found it, I think I was looking for âgames for
the blind,â on MSN or something. That led me
to Audyssey, which lead me to PCS and GMA and so
on. :) Itâs been great fun. Best, Zack. > On
Oct 19, 2014, at 7:26 AM, Charles Rivard
<wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > > The first game
I encountered was not one made for the
blind. "Adventures in C". The first audio game
I encountered was Phil's bowling game for
DOS. It was the first one that I bought,
anyway. Then I found Rich Destino's DOS games
of a 5.25-inch floppy disk that actually was
floppy. Remember those?? > > --- > Be
positive! When it comes to being defeated, if
you think you're finished, you! really! are!
finished! > ----- Original Message ----- From:
"Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> > To:
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Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:33 AM >
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] first audio game. > > >>
Hi Dark, >> >> Interesting. As I said I'm not
quite sure what the first audio game >> was for
certain, but some of the earliest ones I know of
were for the >> BNS Classic and BNS 640K. There
was Mine Sweeper, Simon, Solitaire, >> and a few
others released by Blazie Engineering for the
device. A >> little later on Daniel Zingaro
released a few games for the BNS. >> However,
given the fact that the BNS and other blind
devices tended to >> be proprietary I'd be
surprised if they were actually the first
audio >> games per se. I would think, but could
be wrong the first audio games >> were probably
were designed for MS Dos. >> >> >> It is too bad
you missed out on the early audio games as a
teenager, >> but don't feel bad. I did too in
large part because I wasn't looking >> for them.
Oh, I knew games could be played on Dos, Windows
3.1, and >> Windows 95, etc but at the time my
vision was still good enough to >> play games
available at the time. By the time my vision got
bad enough >> I could no longer play graphical
games I naturally turned to text >> based games,
but still wasn't looking for games made for the
blind >> specifically. >> >> How I ended up
finding about Audyssey was by accident more
than >> anything else. I called a college friend
up on the phone, and he said >> he was playing a
game he heard about in Audyssey Magazine. I >>
immediately got on the net, grabbed the first
few issues, and was >> suddenly introduced to
all the games I had been missing. In one way >>
the games were something of a let down since I
had just gone from Tomb >> Raider, Quake, Jedi
Knight, etc to games like Life,, Battleship,
and >> that sort of thing. However, I was
none-the-less happy to find games >> to play
even if they weren't what everybody in college
was playing. >> >> On 10/19/14, dark
<d...@xgam.org> wrote: >>> Hi Tom. >>> >>> I
seem to remember hearing an interview with Jim
Kitchin at one point which >>> >>> that the
first actual audio game which used sound rather
than just writing >>> text to the screen was on
the eureaca or one of those other specialist >>>
braille machines. >>> >>> I think it was a shoot
aliens type of game, but as I've never owned any
of >>> those specialist braille things I don't
know for certain, still I remember >>> Jim
Kitchin saying he got some inspiration from that
to create actual games >>> >>> with
representative sound, sinse after all in the dos
days there were lots >>> of text games being
produced by many developers anyway, indeed I'm a
little >>> >>> sorry I never found out about
them as a teenager and was only given a
laptop >>> >>> with windows 3.1 on to work and
never thought you could do something as >>>
interesting as play games on it, ---- it
certainly wouldn've improved my >>> computer
skills if I had. >>> >>> Beware the
grue! >>> >>> Dark. >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers
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